Siebert The German Economy

Beyond the Social Market
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-5165-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 416 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Siebert, Horst

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vii
Chapter One: Basic Features of the German Economy 1
Chapter Two: The Social Market Economy 24
Chapter Three: The Weak Growth Performance 38
Chapter Four: The Labor Market: High and Sticky Unemployment 69
Chapter Five: The Social Security System under Strain 114
Chapter Six: Ageing as a Challenge over the Next Forty Years 154
Chapter Seven: Germany: an Immigration Country 166
Chapter Eight: Regulation of Product Markets 181
Chapter Nine: Environmental Protection: a German Topic 203
Chapter Ten: The Capital Market and Corporate Governance 213
Chapter Eleven: Human Capital and Technology Policy 244
Chapter Twelve: The Fiscal Policy Stance 261
Chapter Thirteen: Germany in the European Union: Economic Policy under Ceded
Sovereignty 292
Chapter Fourteen: The System of Governance in Germany’s Social Market Economy 325
Chapter Fifteen: The Need for a Renaissance of the Market Economy 365
References 378
Index 393

Über Autor(innen)

Horst Siebert is President Emeritus of the Kiel Institute for World Economics, Steven Muller Professor of Economics at Johns Hopkins University, and Jelle Zijlstra Professorial Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies. He previously served as a member of the German government's Council of Economic Advisors for twelve years. He is the author of The World Economy, Economics of the Environment, and the author or editor of numerous other books.